President David Skorton answered questions about sustainability, diversity and the Freshman Reading Project on WVBR's Sunday Forum radio show Sept. 7. (Sept. 9, 2008)
The Susan H. Murphy Fellowship has been established by an anonymous donor to honor Murphy, Cornell vice president for student and academic services. (Sept. 9, 2008)
Pianist and composer Jason Moran will open the 2008-09 Cornell Concert Series Sept. 20 with a free concert, a multimedia tribute to Thelonious Monk. (Sept. 9, 2008)
Parents' education and income, as opposed to school funding, are better predictors of a student's success, says Cornell sociologist Stephen Morgan. (Sept. 9, 2008)
Cornell Professor Robert Morgan shares a birthday and more with writer Thomas Wolfe. And Morgan will receive the 2008 Thomas Wolfe Prize Oct. 2 at the University of North Carolina, where both writers are alumni. (Sept. 9, 2008)
Greg Budney, audio curator of the Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library, traveled to Guatemala's Peten region to inventory bird species and collect audio recordings at two pre-Columbian Mayan archaeological sites. (Sept. 9, 2008)
Sara Horowitz, ILR '84, founder of Working Today, a union for flexible workers, delivered the Iscol Family Program lecture on the need for new kinds of unions, Sept. 8. (Sept. 9, 2008)
Cornell President David Skorton read the Gettysburg Address and spoke of the power of oratory in persuading people, Sept. 6, at a kickoff event for Educate the Vote, Cornell's fall election series. (Sept. 8, 2008)